{"id":205000,"date":"2025-01-31T05:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/accidental-discovery-of-identical-oil-lenses-offers-insights-into-emulsions-on-fluid-surfaces"},"modified":"2025-01-31T05:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:15:31","slug":"accidental-discovery-of-identical-oil-lenses-offers-insights-into-emulsions-on-fluid-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/accidental-discovery-of-identical-oil-lenses-offers-insights-into-emulsions-on-fluid-surfaces","title":{"rendered":"Accidental discovery of identical oil lenses offers insights into emulsions on fluid surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/accidental-discovery-of-identical-oil-lenses-offers-insights-into-emulsions-on-fluid-surfaces2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed an innovative technique that allows the production of regular oil lenses of uniform size on the surface of water in a simple and reproducible fashion. The technique will facilitate the study of the behavior of oily substances dispersed on water surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery is crucial for understanding the dispersion of some liquids floating on water and could have many applications in oil spill mitigation and the food and textile industries. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.133.254001\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>The initial discovery, according to the researchers, was the result of an \u201caccident\u201d during the preparation of a routine experiment. \u201cWe were trying to coat a water surface with a thin layer of oil, but the result was unexpected: Instead of a uniform film, we obtained a series of identical and very small droplets, which aroused our curiosity,\u201d explains Javier Rodr\u00edguez, from UC3M\u2019s Department of Thermal and Fluids Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed an innovative technique that allows the production of regular oil lenses of uniform size on the surface of water in a simple and reproducible fashion. The technique will facilitate the study of the behavior of oily substances dispersed on water surfaces. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}